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Seeding and Establishment of Legionella pneumophila in Hospitals
Sophia David, Baharak Afshar, Massimo Mentasti, Christophe Ginevra, Isabelle Podglajen, Simon R Harris, Victoria J Chalker, Sophie Jarraud, Timothy G Harrison, Julian Parkhill
Sep 06, 2019
BACKGROUND: Legionnaires' disease is an important cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia and is caused by infection with the bacterium Legionella. Because current typing methods often fail to resolve the infection source in...
Legionella pneumophila Legionnaires’ disease bacterial genomics whole-genome sequencing Nosocomial infections Computational Biology Cross Infection Genomics Genotype Hospitals Humans Legionella pneumophila Legionnaires' Disease molecular epidemiology Molecular Typing Phylogeny Sequence Analysis DNA Water Microbiology
The dissemination of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae throughout the UK and Ireland.
Danesh Moradigaravand, Sandra Reuter, Veronique Martin, Sharon J Peacock, Julian Parkhill
Oct 13, 2016
A scalable analytical approach from bacterial genomes to epidemiology.
Recent years have seen a remarkable increase in the practicality of sequencing whole genomes from large numbers of bacterial isolates. The availability of this data has huge potential to deliver new insights into the evolution...
Comparative Genomics of Disease and Carriage Serotype 1 Pneumococci.
Chrispin Chaguza, Chinelo Ebruke, Madikay Senghore, Stephanie W Lo, Peggy-Estelle Tientcheu, Rebecca A Gladstone, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, Jennifer E Cornick, Marie Yang, Archibald Worwui, Lesley McGee, Robert F Breiman, Keith P Klugman, Aras Kadioglu, Dean B Everett, Grant Mackenzie, Nicholas J Croucher, Anna Roca, Brenda A Kwambana-Adams, Martin Antonio, Stephen D Bentley
May 21, 2022
The isolation of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes in systemic tissues of patients with invasive disease versus the nasopharynx of healthy individuals with asymptomatic carriage varies widely. Some serotypes are hyper-invasive...